Australian News.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 142, 23 May 1890, Page 2

Australian News.

Sydney, Ma y. 13. The following notice of motion^ bearing upon the proceedings of the recenc court martial, at which : several memb.ers of the crew of H. M. survey ship Egeria were convicted of disobedience, was tabled at the meeting of the Sydney Trades and Labour Coun- . cil : — " That this Council is of opinion that the recent court martial is an outrage upon the feelings of a democratic people, and we consider that such a system of adjudication is more in keeping within the dominion of a despotic than among a free community." For putting a piece of lead into, a •■ slot of a machine and obtaining; a ,>° piece of Everton toffee value on » penny a man was sentenced to 14 days' hard labour in Sydney. : Stock Inspector Newham of Burra, South Australia, reports that a most serious disease, believed to be influenza,, is raging among the horses in the North. On one farm six horses died in a day or two ; on two other farms four died, while "on another two died. Several cases are also reported of horses being unwell. All the cases were north of Burra,. and were from 50 to 100 miles apart. - A woman was found dead banging: by one foot from a wall iv Adelaide. ■ A bottle of carbolic acid was clenched in her hand. She had, it is thought, taken some of the poison and had then fallen backwards from the wall oh which she waß sitting. Her foot caught in a crack in a wall, and the died either from poison or suffocation. A frightful accident has occurred at the new building being erected in Sydney for a land office:- The building had reached a great height, and as a box of sand weighing about two tons was being hoisted up the chain broke and the box fell to the ground striking with fearful force Arthur Wynne and Robert Turner, two young bricklayers, who both died almost instantly. John- Bobertson > who was in charge of the box, had a marvellous escape from death but as it was he is rather severely injured* , as is also a workman named John, Brown, who was engaged' quite close to Wynne and Turner. It is expected however, that both will recover. It is alleged that the men bad complained Of the insecurity of the clain r and that it had previously broken and had been spiioei. - '